The screen has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s. Here’s what will replace it. Microsoft ...

Microsoft is officially retiring the iconic blue crash screen that has haunted PC users since the days of Windows 1.0. In its ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of arguably the single most important release in the history of the personal computer – Windows 1.0. As Windows nears its fourth decade, it does so at a pivotal ...

The issues that stymied Windows 1.0 when Microsoft was young won’t necessarily block today’s operating system from success, not when every major computer company is churning out compatible ...

So the blue screen of death is officially known as a 'Stop Error', which basically indicates that Windows can no longer ...

Tom Merritt highlights five things you may not have known about the first Windows operating system. Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable.

As we learn more about Windows 11, let's take a look back and how the operating system has changed. Windows 1.0. Release date: November 1985 Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its ...

Playing with Windows 1.0 in your web browser. Obviously, Windows 1.0 is a little ancient. In fact, your old-and-busted dumb phone could probably handle its system requirements: 256Kb of memory, a ...

Windows 1.0’s Been Hiding A Secret For 37 Years, And Someone Finally Found It ... As spotted by PC Gamer, Lucas Brooks is a big fan of Microsoft’s graphical operating system, Windows.

Windows 1.0 wasn't exactly a huge win — even with Microsoft Paint helping out. ... Windows wasn’t the first operating system with a GUI as its primary feature.

Microsoft’s Windows operating system was first introduced in 1985. A lot has changed since then, and when we try to look back, we come across a few fond remembrances. Called Windows Throwback ...

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...